The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California will submit a regulatory filing that includes a provision to start including COVID-19 claims in employers’ experience
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation posted to its online forum proposed changes to its qualified medical evaluator regulations.
Proposed changes would extend the time
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The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Actuarial Committee will discuss experience rating plan values during a meeting Tuesday.
“An analysis of the indicated
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The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that when calculating the compensation due to an injured worker, the cost-of-living ratio applicable to out-of-state recipients must be applied
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An unlicensed insurance agent who sold workers’ compensation coverage to businesses throughout California from 2012 through 2019 was sentenced to four years in prison and
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Licensed manicurists in California would be indefinitely exempted from the state’s so-called “ABC test” of employee status, under recently introduced legislation.
Manicurists who book their
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The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined three companies a combined $285,000 for knowingly putting workers at risk of exposure to COVID-19.
The
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Sedgwick will receive one-third of the nearly $30 million restitution order in what federal prosecutors have called the largest workers’ compensation fraud scheme in the
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The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced that it will accept applications through Feb. 18 to serve on an advisory committee tasked with
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The Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board will no longer accept parties’ questions for second independent medical evaluators.
The board in May 2019 repealed the right of
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